Rippling

Staff Software Engineer - Search Platform

Seattle, WA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 days ago

PythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsElasticsearchPlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningSparkLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

You will be the primary technical authority for Search at Rippling, designing cross-platform search primitives that will power the next generation of our product features.

Build and operate resilient, high-performance infrastructure (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch) capable of supporting 10x scale growth while maintaining rigorous standards for latency, freshness, correctness and cost-efficiency.
Build reusable search platform abstractions used by multiple Rippling products.
Elevate the entire engineering organization through strategic design reviews, mentorship, and the establishment of "best-in-class" operational standards.
Strong systems design fundamentals: storage/index design, query execution, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
Strong cross-functional execution and ability to lead ambiguous multi-team platform initiatives.
You will partner with the Product leadership to influence the roadmap, ensuring Search capabilities are a competitive advantage for our product suite.
You will own architecture and execution for indexing, retrieval, relevance/ranking, and query performance at scale.
For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
You'll partner across with Product leadership Data Cloud, platform, and AI/product teams to build shared search primitives that power multiple product surfaces.

Experience with data platforms and schema-rich systems, including large-scale ingestion and serving paths.
Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or Java).

Experience with analytics/query ecosystems (e.g., Trino/Presto, Kafka, Iceberg, Spark).

It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers.
With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365-all within 90 seconds.
Define and lead the technical vision for Rippling search systems:

To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.

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